Long Veterinary Clinic

11/01/2026

🕑🐾FALL BACK🐾🕑
Dear humans,
Don't forget to set your clocks back tonight....so we can eat an hour early. Your pets will thank you.
Sincerely,
LVC horses

11/01/2026

🎃👻🦇Pet costume contest🦇👻🎃
Going to extend our pet costume contest until tomorrow, Nov. 1. Its not too late to submit those entries. Happy Halloween!!
Submit your pet's costume picture in the comments.

10/31/2026

10/30/2026

🐾🎃👻All Hallow's Eve👻🎃🐾
Halloween is a spooky fun time for families, but for some furry family member's it can be stressful.
Here are some pet safety tips to help keep your pet protected during the spooky festivities tomorrow:

👻Keep Halloween treats out of reach, especially treats and candy that contain raisins, chocolate (any kind) or xylitol (a common sugar substitute) for these ingredients are toxic to pets.
🎃Ensure your pets have identification on (microchip, collar, and ID tag) in case they escape through an open door.
🦇Keep Halloween decorations out of reach of pets. Watch pets around jack-o-lanterns that have lit candles inside. Be careful with human costume pieces that have glow sticks, loose pieces or batteries to avoid choking or internal injury.
🐈‍⬛Pet costumes can be cute and fun but for a pets safety and comfort make sure the costume fits them properly and comfortably, it doesn't have any pieces that easily can be chewed off, avoid costumes that could block their sight, hearing, breathing or movement. You can even help get your pet accustomed to wearing a costume before Halloween night.
👻If your pet is wary of strangers keep them in a room or kennel away from the front door during trick-or-treating. Play soft music or play a t.v. to reduce outside noises that may cause stress.

10/26/2026

🐾👻🎃PET COSTUME CONTEST🎃👻🐾

Long Veterinary Clinic annual Pet costume contest is here! Photo submissions start today, Oct 26 and go until Oct 31.

Please submit your pet photo entries in the comments for a chance to win a prize basket!

Note: submissions must be commented on original post! Photos on shared posts will not appear to us.

Voting will be opened Nov. 1 in a seperate post. Voting will end Saturday Nov. 7 with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners announced on Nov. 9.
🎃🎃👻👻

10/23/2026

🐾🎉THANK YOU🎉🐾
Thank you for celebrating Long Veterinary Clinic veterinary technicians and assistants this week with us!!!
❤️ 🐶🐱🐴🐮🩺💉 📋 🐾💪🏼🐕🐈‍⬛🐎🐐🐓🐄❤️
Happy Veterinary Technician Week
❤️ 🐶🐱🐴🐮🩺💉 📋 🐾💪🏼🐕🐈‍⬛🐎🐐🐓🐄❤️

10/22/2026

🐾📣ATTENTION PLEASE📣🐾
Dr. Leighr will be unavailable tomorrow Friday October 23 for walk-in appointments and same day emergencies due to being out of the office on a day long farm call to perform routine care for a large herd of retired horses.

🩺 Long Veterinary Clinic will be open for normal business hours (8 am to 5:30 pm) to answer phone calls, food pick-ups, pre-filled prescription pick-ups, and prescheduled veterinary technician appointments.
Long Veterinary Clinic Daycare and Boarding and Long Veterinary Clinic Grooming will be open as normal.

🚨If you have an emergency we refer to Excelsior Springs Animal Clinic in Excelsior Springs, Ark Animal Hospital in Liberty or Mission MedVet in Mission, Kansas for small animal. Heartland Equine Hospital in Tonganoxie, Kansas for equine and K-State Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Manhattan, Kansas for large and small animal.
We apologize for any inconveniences. We appreciate your support and understanding.

10/22/2026

It's all in a days work....veterinary technician style.

Do you ever wonder about what happens behind the scenes of a veterinary clinic?
The day starts with patient care of pets that have either been hospitalized or are simply boarding. They are fed, watered, cleaned, taken for a walk (dogs), and given medications if they have any. And maybe a snuggle or two.

Once patients start walking through the doors to be dropped off for surgery an RVT takes blood and runs bloodwork to ensure organ function is appropriate for anesthesia, to those who have elected to have it done. Results are then reported to Dr. Leighr. The RVT then is creating an anesthetic drug plan for each surgery patient, placing an IV catheter if needed, setting up surgery that is specific to the patient's needs. Along side the RVT you will find a trusty sidekick, a veterinary assistant.

When Dr. Leighr is ready an order of surgeries is put into place. Patients will then be induced (under direct supervision of the doctor), intubated, attached to the anesthesia machine, hooked up to monitoring equipment, and finally aseptically cleaned at their surgery site.

While Dr. Leighr is performing surgery, the RVT is responsible for monitoring the patient to ensure they remain in an appropriate plane of anesthesia for the surgery they are getting. In between monitoring they will get surgical supplies that Dr. Leighr needs. If the surgery is non-routine Dr. Leighr will have and RVT scrub in and assist, as another will step in to monitor. One RVT and assistant will help Dr. Leighr in surgery while another RVT and assistant are working on performing a dental cleaning.

After surgery the patient is admistered pain medication, cleaned up, and monitored until awake and safe to be unattended.

In the midst of all of surgeries and dental procedures, the day consists of assisting Dr. Leighr in exam rooms, taking/making phone calls to clients, filling prescriptions, taking x-rays, looking at cytologies, running diagnostic bloodwork, collecting and running f***l and urine samples, completing technician appointments, triage an unexpected emergency/walk in, cleaning the surgery room, sterilizing surgery equipment, laundry, performing ultrasounds, and other responsibilities that have not been mentioned.

Our RVT's are so very grateful to our amazing assistants that work along side us day in and day out. We would not be able to keep up or stay organized without them.

10/21/2026

🐶🐱🐴🐮🩺💉 📋 🐾💪🏼🐕🐈‍⬛🐎🐐🐓🐄❤️
A veterinary technician is not just a person that holds animals for the veterinarian. They are the work force behind the scenes that are responsible for patient care and comfort, surgical assistance, dental hygienist, clinic cleanliness, laboratory tech, radiology tech, ultrasound tech, owner educator, and more.
Did you know to become a registered veterinary technician one must graduate from a 2 year program, usually an AVMA accredited program, where they will learn much of what a veterinarian does. After graduation with an associates degree in Veterinary Technology one can become licensed by passing the Veterinary Technician National Exam. Once passing the National exam they can apply to take the State Board Exam to become credentialed in the state they will practice in. Different states have different credentials including a registered veterinary technician (RVT), a licensed veterinary technician (LVT), certified veterinary technician (CVT), licensed veterinary medical technician (LVMT). Each year states require technicians to attain various hours of continuing education to keep their license active to prove they are up to date and knowledgeable about current veterinary practices. A technician can go even further in credentials to become a veterinary technician specialist.